URL, or layer-5, switches can be used to implement locally and globally distributed web sites. URL switches must be able to exploit knowledge of server load and content (e.g., of ...
Abstract— In this paper, we share our experience in designing and building a content based switch which we call L5. In addition to the layer 2-3-4 information available in the pa...
George Apostolopoulos, David Aubespin, Vinod G. J....
—Large-scale applications are characterized by a large number of dynamic and often interactive group members. The nature of these applications is such that participants are not i...
Brian Neil Levine, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot,...
Current HTTP servers process requests using a first come first serve queuing policy. What this implies is that the web server must process each request as it arrives. The result is...
Abstract—Most of the QoS routing schemes proposed so far require periodic exchange of QoS state information among routers, imposing both communication overhead on the network and...